New EEOC harassment guidelines expected soon

At a time when workplace harassment is in the news regularly, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is on the verge of releasing new guidelines for employers. An EEOC workplace harassment task force issued a report in mid-2016. That led to the EEOC issuing draft guidance on harassment in January 2017, followed by a public comment period that ended in March. The EEOC then spent the next eight months honing its guidelines before sending them to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the…